Alien: Earth Review: Noah Hawley TV Show Is a Masterful Spinoff
"Alien: Earth" brings the action of Ridley Scott’s opus to our planet, where people turn out to be the biggest monsters of all
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‘Alien: Earth’ brings the chilling universe of Ridley Scott’s saga down to our own backyard, digging into the very heart of what makes us human. Set two years before the 1979 original, Noah Hawley’s FX series follows the creation of “hybrids”—human consciousnesses downloaded into immortal synthetic bodies—led by the enigmatic Wendy. As Wendy and her fellow synth-kids journey to a crash-landed spaceship, the show riffs on classic xenomorph scares while turning the lens back onto humanity’s hubris and brutality.
Visually expansive and philosophically bold, Hawley masterfully balances old-school Alien dread with Blade Runner–style android angst. By posing that our real monsters might be corporate oligarchs (and even ourselves), ‘Alien: Earth’ deepens the franchise’s cosmic horror with questions that hit home in the age of AI, biotech and billionaire power plays—reminding us that sometimes the scariest things on Earth walk upright.
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